A Japanese man allegedly angry that his ideas had been stolen admitted Tuesday to starting a fire that killed 36 people in an animation studio in 2019, local media said.
A Japanese man allegedly angry that his ideas had been stolen admitted Tuesday to starting a fire that killed 36 people in an animation studio in 2019, local media said. The blaze that ripped through the studios of Kyoto Animation in July 2019 shocked Japan as well as the huge…
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PublishedDec 17, 2020, 5:00 am SGT
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TOKYO • Japanese prosecutors have charged a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation that killed 36 people, the country s deadliest violent crime in decades.
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More than 30 people were injured in the attack on the anime studio that killed 36. (File photo: AFP/STR)
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TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday (Dec 16) charged a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation that killed 36 people, local media said.
The attack was the country s deadliest violent crime in decades.
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Shinji Aoba, 42, was detained in the aftermath of the July 2019 attack, but has been hospitalised since then with severe burns sustained in the incident, and reportedly only regained consciousness the following month.